James Wood
English literary critic, essayist and novelist; longtime contributor to The New Yorker and former literary editor of the London Review of Books, known for books on fiction and criticism such as How Fiction Works.
Books
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1. Como Funciona A Ficção
Analisa os mecanismos da narrativa — ponto de vista, discurso indireto livre, detalhes observacionais, metáfora, ironia e ritmo — e mostra como escolhas de linguagem e representação produzem verossimilhança, profundidade psicológica e sentido moral. Defende a leitura atenta e a tradição do realismo como via para entender como a ficção cria empatia e ambiguidade ética, problematiza a oposição simplista entre “mostrar” e “contar” e ilustra os argumentos com leituras próximas de obras clássicas e modernas para demonstrar como voz, caracterização e modulação narrativa moldam a experiência do leitor.
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2. What's Wrong With The Rorschach? Science Confronts The Controversial Inkblot Test
Science Confronts The Controversial Inkblot Test
An investigative account that traces the history, scientific evaluations, and controversies around the Rorschach inkblot test, arguing that despite its cultural prominence and clinical appeal the method suffers from serious problems of reliability, validity, and standardization; empirical studies and legal controversies reveal inconsistent scoring, weak predictive power, and susceptibility to examiner bias, leading the author to urge caution, reform, or replacement with better-validated assessment tools.